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ClearNanoscale Solutions: The Transformative Applications of Functionalized Nanomaterials in Environmental Remediation
This review summarizes how functionalized nanomaterials are being applied to remediate environmental pollution in air, water, and soil. The study highlights that engineered nanomaterials can effectively target and break down various contaminants, though further research is needed on their long-term environmental safety and scalability.
Environmental Remediation Using Nanoparticles: A Review
This review examines the use of metal, oxide, and carbon-based nanoparticles for environmental remediation, covering their mechanisms for removing heavy metals, pesticides, industrial effluents, and other pollutants from water, soil, and air.
Developments in the Application of Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Their Impact on the Environment
This review covers the application of nanomaterials for water treatment and remediation, evaluating how nanomaterial properties enable removal of pollutants including heavy metals, organic contaminants, and microplastics. It surveys the current state of research and discusses practical challenges for scaling up nanomaterial-based water treatment.
Nanoparticles in Soil Remediation: Challenges and Opportunities
This review examines the use of nanoparticles for cleaning up contaminated soils, covering technologies like chemical degradation, photocatalysis, and combined approaches with bioremediation. Researchers found that while nanomaterials show promise for removing pollutants, their own potential environmental and health effects need careful evaluation. The study calls for developing better monitoring tools and multi-functional nanocomposites to advance the field of soil cleanup.
Nanoremediation: A New and Emerging Technology
This chapter reviews nanoremediation -- the use of engineered nanoparticles to clean up contaminated soil and water -- and notes that nano- and microplastic pollution is an emerging contaminant that these technologies could help address. The author discusses how carbon nanotubes, zero-valent iron, and magnetic nanoparticles can remove organic pollutants and metals, and suggests these same approaches may have promise for removing microplastics from the environment. The technology is still in early stages and relatively expensive.
Common methodologies for treating environmental issues with nanomaterials
This review examines how nanomaterials can address environmental pollution challenges through three mechanisms -- adsorption, filtration, and degradation -- discussing their advantages over traditional treatment methods due to high specific surface area, catalytic activity, and photocatalytic properties.
Nanotechnology for the bioremediation of heavy metals and metalloids
This review examines the application of nanotechnology for bioremediation of heavy metals and metalloids from contaminated soil and water, highlighting how nanobioremediation approaches overcome limitations of conventional cleanup methods.
Nanosorbents in purification of wastewater and remediation of contaminated soil: A review
This review examines how nanoscale sorbent materials can be used to remove pollutants from wastewater and contaminated soil. Nanomaterials offer high surface area and chemical reactivity that make them effective at capturing microplastics, heavy metals, and organic contaminants that standard treatments miss.
Nano-Technological Bioremediation: Revolutionizing Environmental Cleanup
This review explores how combining nanotechnology with bioremediation improves the ability to clean up environmental pollutants including microplastics, heavy metals, and organic chemicals. Nano-enabled bioremediation systems can enhance the efficiency of microbial degradation and contaminant capture in polluted soils and water.
Applications of New Technologies for Environmental Cleaning: a Review
This review examines emerging technologies for environmental remediation including bioremediation, nanotechnology, advanced oxidation processes, artificial intelligence, green chemistry, and membrane filtration, evaluating their mechanisms, applications, advantages, and limitations for treating soil, water, and air pollution.
Nanotechnology and Its Implications for Controlling Air Pollution: A Mini Review
This mini review examines how nanotechnology can offer innovative solutions to air pollution control, discussing nanoscale materials and devices that improve the efficiency and scalability of air pollutant removal compared to conventional approaches.
Next-generation nanomaterials for environmental remediation: smart design, hybrid materials and sustainable use
Researchers reviewed advances in eco-engineered nanomaterials for remediating persistent environmental contaminants — including PFAS, microplastics, heavy metals, and pharmaceuticals — covering adsorption, photocatalytic, and magnetic recovery systems, while discussing sustainability challenges around lifecycle, toxicity, and real-world deployment.
Advanced Nanotechnology in Wastewater Treatment: Investigating the Role of Nanoparticles in Pollutant Removal, Water Recovery, and Environmental Sustainability
This review examines how nanotechnology-based approaches — including nanoparticle adsorbents, nanofiltration membranes, and photocatalysts — can address persistent water pollutants including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and heavy metals more effectively than conventional treatment methods.
Agro-Pollutants and their Nano-Remediation from Soil and Water: A Mini-Review
This mini-review examines nano-remediation technologies for removing agricultural pollutants including pesticides, heavy metals, and fertilizers from soil and water. Nanomaterials are also being explored as tools for detecting and removing microplastics from the environment, making this research relevant to plastic pollution management.
Advances in the use of inorganic nanomaterials for sustainable remediation of contaminated water
This review synthesizes advances in using inorganic nanomaterials -- including metal oxides, zeolites, and clay-based composites -- for sustainable remediation of water contaminants such as textile dyes, oil, heavy metals, and microplastics, discussing both performance outcomes and the sustainability of the nanomaterials themselves.
Mini review on the application research of nanoscale zero valent iron in water treatment
This mini-review covers nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI) particles as tools for environmental pollution control, capable of adsorbing and chemically reducing heavy metals and organic contaminants in water. These nanomaterials are also being explored for microplastic removal and the breakdown of plastic-associated chemical pollutants in water treatment.
Nanomaterials for Water Remediation: An Efficient Strategy for Prevention of Metal(loid) Hazard
This review examines how nanomaterials can be used to remediate metal and metalloid contamination in water, covering adsorption mechanisms, synthesis methods, and the advantages of nano-scale adsorbents over conventional water treatment approaches.
Mechanistic and recent updates in nano-bioremediation for developing green technology to alleviate agricultural contaminants
Researchers reviewed nano-bioremediation — the combination of nanoparticles with microbial processes — as a promising strategy for removing heavy metals, pesticides, and other agricultural contaminants from soil and water, highlighting improved catalytic activity and adsorption capacity compared to conventional remediation methods.
Environmental remediation approaches by nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI) based on its reductivity: a review
This review covers how nanoscale zero-valent iron particles can be used to clean up contaminated wastewater through chemical reduction of pollutants like heavy metals and organic compounds. While not directly about microplastics, these remediation technologies are relevant because they represent advanced approaches to treating the kinds of contaminated water that often also contains microplastic pollution.
Conventional technologies and recent developments in the nanotechnological approach for the remediation of persistent organic pollutants
This is not primarily about microplastics — it is a review of nanotechnological approaches to removing persistent organic pollutants (POPs) from the environment, covering a broad range of contaminants and treatment strategies with only tangential connection to plastic pollution.
Nanomaterials for the remediation of microplastics in wastewater
This review evaluates how engineered nanomaterials can be used to capture and break down microplastics in wastewater, highlighting approaches based on metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon-based materials, and magnetic composites. Researchers found that these nanomaterials offer high surface area and reactivity advantages over conventional treatment methods. The study identifies scalability, cost, and potential secondary pollution from the nanomaterials themselves as key challenges to address before widespread adoption.
Efficacy of Nanoparticles in Water Treatment
This overview reviews how engineered nanoparticles can improve conventional water treatment by selectively removing heavy metals, organic pollutants, and pathogens through adsorption and catalytic degradation. While promising, the authors note that the potential toxicity of nanoparticles to humans and ecosystems must be resolved before they can be widely deployed as safe water purification tools.
Nano-based remediation strategies for micro and nanoplastic pollution
This review covers how nanomaterial-based technologies can be used to remove microplastics from the environment, including methods using magnetic nanoparticles, photocatalysts, and membrane filters. While current physical, chemical, and biological removal methods each have limitations, nanomaterials can enhance their effectiveness by targeting smaller plastic particles that traditional methods miss. Better removal technologies could ultimately reduce human exposure to microplastics in drinking water and food.
Nanomaterials for microplastic remediation from aquatic environment: Why nano matters?
This review examines how nanomaterials such as photocatalysts, adsorbents, and membrane filters can be used to remove microplastics from aquatic environments, highlighting why nanoscale properties offer advantages over conventional remediation approaches.